The Muslim Registry that Wasn’t

National Review ^ | 11/22/16 | Rich Lowry

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The first thing to know about Donald Trump’s alleged proposal for a Muslim registry is that it isn’t a Muslim registry...

The source of the fracas is a comment from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Trump immigration adviser....Kobach noted that the administration might reinstate a Bush-era program tracking visitors to the U.S. from countries with active terrorist threats... it collected fingerprints and photographs when visitors from the select countries arrived and required them to check in periodically to confirm that they were abiding by the terms of their visas. It also required that certain individuals from these countries who were already here go through a process of “special registration,” including an interview with immigration officials. ...

It is true, as the critics point out, that the selected countries all were, with the exception of North Korea, majority Muslim. But any program concerned with international terrorism will, inevitably, focus largely on Muslim countries

the Bush program proved best-suited to identifying visa overstayers. Of the 85,000 initial registrants, nearly 14,000 were put into removal proceedings.

The requirements of the Bush program were watered down over time until it was suspended by the Obama administration in 2011. But the program wasn’t illegal or unconstitutional (the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in its favor). Nor was it immoral — foreign visitors should be subject to any reasonable strictures we impose in exchange for the privilege of coming here.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Lowry goes on to note that this is a good example of how the MSM generates their own "fake news."

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Muslim Registry

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